There is a particularly interesting article in the August 2005 issue of Wired relating the birth of Google. It is written by John Battelle, who is a prominent expert of everything Google. Lots of new stuff in there. Among others, I didn’t know that Google was first of all an algorithm to sort pages by their importance, and that the indexing and search functionality was added later after it was discovered that ordering of pages by their importance was the killer feature that all search engines of the time needed. Google truly rocks.
July 28th, 2005 | Technology
You can read the original paper that was written by Page and Brin in 1998 about PageRank called The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. The first six words of the abstract are rather imposing:
There are 2 versions of this paper. I have only found the short one. The long one is out there, floating on Internet. Maybe we can use Google to find it…?
Comment by Anonymous — July 29, 2005 @ 8:34 am